Take Up Rollers Loading

[Bill McMurtry]

Hi Jason, I never waste a metre of media just to get it attached to the takeup roller. As the media is printing and it gets close to the takeup roller, I attach masking tape to the middle edge of the media and the two side edges. When the media edge reaches the takeup just quickly press down the centre tape against the roll (between head passes when the media isn’t advancing), after the next head pass quickly attach the two side edge tapes making sure to keep the media tension even. Hit the takeup power switch and you’re on your way 😀

[Peter Normington]

I do it like Bill

Peter

[Jason Xuereb]

Cheers guys.

I got about 30 metres of printing in two weeks. I will give it a whirl then.

[Bill McMurtry]

Jason, Just a word of caution with the takeup roller. I recently printed off about 25 Metres of banner and about the same in poster paper using the takeup roller. One thing you might want to keep an eye on is your heater temperature. I found that the few metres closest to the take up core can experience quite a lot of compression force due to the successive layers of media being wound. If the ink, particularly in high saturation areas, isn’t dry enough before the media gets wound onto the takeup it can cause defects in your prints. I found the problem was particularly prevalent using banner, but was rectified by upping the heater by about 10 degrees (& extra 5 deg for poster paper). 😉

[Jason Xuereb]

Cheers Bill,

I think I got the heater at a sweet point.

I’m printing off avery 1005 ez rs at the moment. It’s done about 10 metres so far. Poor old versamcamm isn’t the fastest thing on the planet.

I love the take up roller. Don’t know how I’ve survived for so long without one.

Cheers
Jason

[Bill McMurtry]

Yes Jason, for those long print runs it’s great to just hit the take-up button and walk away 😀